RobotBank starts its own physical AI robot line with an industrial quadruped

Japanese company RobotBank said on 9 November that it will develop robots that use physical AI as products under its own brand, starting with a project for a four-legged robot for manufacturing, logistics and infrastructure, Robotstart reported. The company has built robot products, software platforms and systems before, and says the move makes its own embodied AI robots a new focus.

The quadruped is meant for patrol inspections of factories and equipment, checks of logistics and large facilities, and support for infrastructure inspections. RobotBank will test conditions at each site before setting the specifications, and plans to add environment recognition and autonomous task execution step by step. Later candidates include mobile manipulators, industrial work robots and robot hands, though the company says these are not committed products, and it has not given dates or specifications.